Planned Parenthood Opens Abortuary With No Notice in Waukegan
By Christine Misner   |   05.20.20
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Planned Parenthood opened a new clinic in Waukegan, its 19th in Illinois. Like its predecessor in Fairview Heights which opened last October, it was built in secret. The clinic, called The Waukegan...
Leftists Say Freely Choosing Feticide Is Now Non-Elective
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.20.20
There’s nothing quite like a crisis to bring out the best in people. There’s also nothing quite like a crisis to bring out the worst in people. Case in point, Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer’s idiotic defense of prohibiting doctors from...
Abortion Battle Continues as Pandemic Rages
By Christine Misner   |   04.11.20
As the Coronavirus pandemic wears on, government officials have shut down schools and businesses while stressing social distancing. The work continues to get personal protective equipment (PPE) into the hands of medical personnel with even elective surgeries canceled for the foreseeable future. However, the pandemic hasn’t slowed down the abortion industry.
This Rockford Nurse Lost Her Job Because of Her Pro-life Beliefs
03.30.20
When Sandra (Mendoza) Rojas walked into a local children’s home at 17 years old, she discovered her calling. “Right there and then I knew I wanted to be a nurse and to take care of children. I knew that was my calling, and I knew that is what I was born to be—a pediatric nurse.”
With Lethal Words, Abortion Apologists Attempt New Cover-Ups
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.21.20
Euphemistic language is an essential tool of all efforts to promote evil as good. Watch anti-life, anti-woman, anti-human-rights "feminist" Sophie Lewis defend human slaughter through such absurd language-torturing that it would be comical if it weren't serving such an evil end.
Abortion Activists Want Us to Look at Abortion More Expansively<br>Great Idea! Let’s Help Them
By Terrell Clemmons   |   03.16.20
The number of “tourist” abortions carried out in Illinois nearly doubled from 2014 to 2018. Reporter Natalie Moore of Chicago's NPR station WBEZ recently praised this development, as she see this as a strength. Illinois has become a go-to state for abortion.
Is Abortion More Important than Safety? The Case Now Before the U.S. Supreme Court
By Nancy Valko   |   03.12.20
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering the June Medical Services v. Russo case concerning whether Louisiana’s law requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a local hospital conflicts with the Court’s 2016 Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt decision along with a second issue about “whether abortion providers can legally represent the interests of women seeking an abortion when those providers sue to overthrow laws protecting those women’s health and safety.”
The 2020 Pro-Life Billboard Blitz
By David E. Smith   |   03.03.20
Illinois Family Institute is partnering with other pro-life advocates to reach and challenge millions of our neighbors with the truth about abortion. We are putting up pro-life billboards with the simple and bold statement “Abortion Takes A Human Life,” but...
Margaret Sanger and the Racist Roots of Planned Parenthood
02.14.20
Margaret Sanger, her sister, Ethel Byrne, and Fania Mindell opened the first birth control clinic in the United States in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York on October 16, 1916. The clinic was later raided by the NYPD, and all three women were arrested and charged with violating the Comstock Act for distributing obscene materials. After laws governing birth control were relaxed, Sanger founded the American Birth Control League in 1921, which was renamed the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1942.
So-Called ‘Death With Dignity’ Resolution Advances in Evanston
By Christine Misner   |   02.13.20
Evanston, Illinois, a North Shore suburb of Chicago, has a reputation in the rest of the state as being affluent and liberal. Last year, its city council voted to levy a 3 percent tax, with a cap of $10 million,...
Thomas More Society Fights Pro-Life Discrimination in NY
By Christine Misner   |   01.25.20
A federal lawsuit has been filed against New York City and the state, too, over their effort to include abortion in civil rights protections.
Chicago Tribune: Shill for Human Slaughter
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.18.20
In an 804-word news article appearing in the Chicago Tribune on Friday, Jan. 10, the day before the March for Life, “reporter” Angie Leventis Lourgos provided these scant details about the event...
The #MeToo Generation We’re Still Not Seeing
By Terrell Clemmons   |   01.15.20
We have slavery in our midst. The following are all true stories. No names have been changed: ... These are not outlying scenarios. This is the new face of human trafficking - also called modern slavery - in America. It's happening in our cities, in our suburbs, and even in our schools during lunch and after school hours...
Parental Notification of Abortion on the Chopping Block?
By Kathy Valente   |   01.10.20
Is there a connection to our high taxes, political corruption, pension debt, radical abortion expansion, LGBT indoctrination and many other foolish policies? We believe there is, and a recent abortion-related law may be partly to blame.
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